KNOXVILLE - A July 16 preliminary hearing was set today for former University of Tennessee basketball player Ramar Smith on aggravated robbery charges.
Smith was arraigned before General Sessions Court Judge Geoff Emery and did not enter a plea.
Smith is charged with a May 18 heist at the Steeplechase apartments.
Prosecutors asked this morning that Smith submit to a second DNA swab. Smith's attorney declined.
Smith, 21, and Kaoun Kaihani, 23, are accused of taking $6,000, a gun and a half-pound of marijuana from the apartment of UT student Kinder Tuckwiller, who said Smith had come to his apartment to buy marijuana.
Tuckwiller said Smith restrained him while someone he didn't know entered with a handgun and took the items.
Smith turned himself in and is free on $15,000 bond.
A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper stopped a vehicle outside Lebanon, Tenn., on a traffic violation Monday and arrested Kaihani, who owned the car but was a passenger at the time.
Police records also have Tuckwiller as a witness in a May 19 shooting and robbery at a Woodlands Townhouses in South Knoxville. The shooting victim, Charles Austin Corn, 25, died Sunday.
Police said UT football player Brent Vinson also was a witness to the shooting.
Police say they haven't yet determined whether there's a connection between the robberies.
More details as they develop online and in Friday's News Sentinel.
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Comments » 6
auttat writes:
Tuckwiller gets robbed at gunpoint and is also at the scene of a fatal shooting but they aren't connected? RIGHT!!!!
BigOrangeHustler writes:
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InertGas writes:
What ever happened to General Watermelon?
halloffamebowler writes:
Hope he stays in hideing.
pdhuff#552644 writes:
I saw Melon and Dupree digging carts out of the weeds at Halls K-Mart.
Seemed fine.
Bearwuzacheater writes:
UKan't beat Tennessee, UKnow what I want to call you.
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